Beyond the Blood, the Beach and the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies
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Contents
Reviews
Language
English
ISBN
978-976-637-647-5
Table of Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Section 1 - Methodological Considerations
Deadening, Voyeuristic and Reiterative?Problems of Representation in Caribbean Research
Flying Away and Grounds for Concern: Mobility, Location and Ethical Discomfort in Researching Caribbean History from the UK
The Importance of Reflexivity in Caribbean Research: Thinking through ‘Race’, Self and Politics
Textualising Slavery: From ‘Slave’ to ‘Enslaved People’in Caribbean Historiography
Section 2 - History, Migration
The Other Sideof Slave Revolts
More than Producers and Reproducers: Jamaican Slave Women’s Dance and Song
Caribbean Migration and Adjustment to Canada: Pursuing the Mobility Dream 1900-1998
‘Blacks in Ivory Towers Can’t Write about Ghettos’1:West Indian Worker Writers in 1970s Britain.
Inbetweenity: Marginalisation, Migration and Poverty among Haitians in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Section 3 - Tourism
Postmodernity or Profitability? Changing Modes of Tourism in Jamaica.
Natural Hedonism:The Invention of Caribbean Islands as Tropical Playgrounds
Sleeping with the Enemy: Jineterismo, ‘Cultural Level’ and ‘Antisocial Behaviour’ in 1990s Cuba
All Sights Reserved: All-Inclusive Resorts and the ImaginedCaribbean
Section 4 - Governance & Politics
Cracks in the Kingdom of the Netherlands: An Inside Story
The Transatlantic Banana War and the Marginalisation of Caribbean Trading Interests
The Impact of Globalisation on the CaribbeanSugar and Banana Industries
Section 5 - Visual &Material Culture
Dis-Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century. The Voyage of the Sable Venus: Connoisseurship and the Trivialising of Slavery
The Impact of Indian Film in Trinidad
A Good Kicker: Analysing Script and Screen with Adolescent Boys in Jamaica
A Philosophy of Survival: Anancyism in Jamaican Pantomime
Section 6 - Literature of The Caribbean & its Diaspora
The Corporeal and the Sensual in Two Novels by Shani Mootoo and Julia Alvarez
Representations of Deference and Defiance in the Novels of Caryl Phillips.
Re-inventing Jamaican History: Roger Mais and George William Gordon
Forging Subjectivity in the Jamaican-British Borderlands: Emotion and Identity in Joan Riley’s The Unbelonging
‘A Strange Synchronicity’: The Language of Landscapes in Lawrence Scott’s Aelred’s Sin
Contributors
Index
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